Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Love To Lois

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Love To Lois 3x32 Strathspey Longwise set Genny Hall 2003

1-8 All three couples dance six-bar reels of three on their own sides of the dance (1st couple in and down to begin) On bars 7 and 8, 1st and 2nd couples continue to reel to change places: 213.
9-20 All dance three-couple rights and lefts.
21-24 All three couples turn with two hands,
25-32 Taking hands on the side, all set and cross giving right hands. Set again and while the 2nd couple cross to own sides, 1st and 3rd couples dance right hands across half way.

Finish in order 231 ready to repeat from new positions.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Genny Hall of Tokoroa, February 2003)

Dance Notes

  1-8   The deviser disapproves the taking of hands (RF).


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Dance Information

This dance is dedicated to Lois Simpson, first life member of the Tokoroa SCD Club, who recently passed away.

Music: Strathspey Medley (Bobby Brown - Grandfather Mountain Gala)

(Dance information by the deviser, Genny Hall of Tokoroa, February 2003)



Published in Love To Lois, reproduced here with the kind permission of Ruary Laidlaw, 2023. Copyright Genny Hall, All rights reserved.

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